Texas Private Colleges Ranked by Lowest Acceptance Rate
List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate
List of Private Colleges by Acceptance Rate
Below is a ranking of the 53 private colleges in Texas with the lowest acceptance rate for freshman undergraduate applications. Rice University leads the list by accepting 11% of high school students that applied.
Data is reported for the 2017/18 academic year by the U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics.
| College | Acceptance Rate | |
|---|---|---|
| R |
Rice University |
11% |
| D |
Dallas Christian College |
29% |
| T |
Trinity University |
34% |
| T |
Texas Wesleyan University |
36% |
| B |
Baylor University |
39% |
| D |
University of Dallas |
39% |
| M |
McMurry University |
41% |
| T |
Texas Christian University |
41% |
| S |
Southwestern University |
45% |
| L |
LeTourneau University |
46% |
| H |
Huston Tillotson University |
47% |
| S |
Southern Methodist University |
51% |
| E |
East Texas Baptist University |
54% |
| T |
Texas Lutheran University |
54% |
| A |
Austin College |
55% |
| S |
Southwestern Adventist University |
55% |
| A |
Abilene Christian University |
57% |
| H |
Howard Payne University |
58% |
| H |
Houston Baptist University |
70% |
| B |
Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary |
75% |